Ars Magica 6 - is it planned?

[Heaven_s_Thunder_Ham (Heaven's Thunder Hammer)]

@Gremlin44

Unfortunately, no one with any explicit knowledge wouldn't be allowed to post anyway shakes fist at NDA The proliferation of 6e posts stems from Heaven's Thunder Hammer resurrecting an old post on the subject of a hypothetical new edition. To my knowledge, he's not an author or playtester so I doubt he has any inside knowledge (the fact that he hasn't been censured by David or the Nephews may be taken as further evidence).

That said, however, David Chart did admit (after Marko broke NDA) that his plans for a revised edition of Ars Magica 5E had been scrapped. And, of course, the game is over 10 years sold so we'll probably be seeing 6e sooner rather than later, but there don't seem to be any concrete plans yet.

You outed me, how dare you! Naw I'm just shooting some shit here. Yes. I'm just an active fan, not an author, nor a playtester. I've been around this site since 2006, and posted on the old ars magica forum on webrpg.net (or whatever the hell it was called) before the site tanked in the early 2000s. Many of the people from that forum I recognized as playtesters on 5E. I would like to think if I had been more vocal/interested my name could have been on 5E playtester credits. However, at that point I think seriously got into Mage: the Ascension and Exalted 1E... I disliked 4E and wasn't interested in the game for some years.

What happened was that I got thinking about it, and recalled a post that Cam Banks made in the Ars 6 Wishlist Thread:

Wishlist: Ars Magica 6

Perhaps you folks might start by answering this important question (something that I've asked in many previous development cycles): What makes a game Ars Magica? In other words, what are the game's essential qualities? Are they mechanical, thematic, procedural, aesthetic, or a mix? When does it stop being Ars Magica for you? How much would it not resemble ArM5 while remaining Ars Magica? And a followup: Who is ArM 6's audience?

Which spawned its own thread: What makes Ars Magica Ars Magica?

I just had a 6th sense (get it :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ) that something was being thought of and figured pushing some discussion on it would be a good idea to give the Developers (David Chart and Cam Banks) as well as the author pool who will likely be brought in as consultants what fans were thinking about a new edition. TGDMB.com has very, very different discussions about RPGs, and it got me thinking. There were some highly influential threads about 3.5 that influenced D&D 4th edition that I saw on EN-World and the WotC forums. I figured Ars Magica could have some of the same things. If you scroll up from
Wishlist: Ars Magica 6 - #28 by Cam_Banks , on the post directly above Cam Banks, you'll see I have quoted links to the previous EIGHT discussions on 6E. I hope those get looked at too, since in the past we had different forum members active.